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The character 嗝 is a phono-semantic compound meaning a hiccup or belch, representing physiological sounds exiting the body. It combines the semantic radical 口 (mouth) on the left, indicating a mouth- or vocal-tract action, with the phonetic component 鬲 (gé) on the right. 鬲 originally named an ancient cooking vessel, but this meaning does not affect the modern character. 嗝 is informal, occurring in spoken and informal written language for the act of belching or hiccupping, and frequently appears in 打嗝 (dǎgé).
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